Fire in the Big House : America's Deadliest Prison Disaster /

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"On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary's dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men who came from all corners of Prohibition-era America and from as far away as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roth, Mitchel P., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) > History.
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) > Fire, 1930.
History.
Prisoners.
Prisons.
Residential Fires.
Social conditions.
Prisons > Fires and fire prevention.
Fires.
Fires > Ohio > Columbus > History > 20th century.
Prisons > Ohio > History > 20th century.
Prisons > Fires and fire prevention > Ohio > Columbus.
Ohio > Columbus.
Ohio.
Columbus (Ohio) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo

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